> Does it actually perform some kind of checks? What I got from the Watchdog itself? Yes, which ones depends on your configuration. wd_keepalive only triggers the hardware watchdog.
> documentation is that it only writes to /dev/watchdog periodically regardless > what happens. Thus "basic watchdog functionality" would only mean that it is > checked if the userspace process is still running. Yes, if it doesn't the hw watchdog will reset the system. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael.meskes at googlemail dot com VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110417104843.ga14...@feivel.credativ.lan
